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by nyeah 1y ago
I've often heard "Irish" for Irish and "Gaelic" for the Scottish one. Is that not used systematically?
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by nyeah 1y ago
Let's keep things simple. You endorsed it. Here's a famous example of that endorsement style: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56968/speech-friends-...
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by nyeah 2y ago
Administrations come and go. Voters need to calm down and ask for something rational.
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by nyeah 2y ago
Fine, we underestimate the difficulty. But we can make a detailed plan like other countries do. The US has massive advantages. Just no longer so massive that we can expect to win on sheer awesomeness. I feel like we in the US have a horribl
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by nyeah 2y ago
Yes, the President has thrown down a very respectable challenge to absurdists everywhere.
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by nyeah 2y ago
Spell check isn't really adequate. You get a page full of correctly spelled words, but they're the wrong words.
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by nyeah 2y ago
This is an important point. But it doesn't conflict severely with the article. Sure, to first order, and in the short term, engineering work is often valued more or less at random. The valuation is driven by factors that we can't
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by nyeah 2y ago
But Dijkstra was writing long ago. I'm sure the situation is greatly improved today.
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by nyeah 2y ago
I don't think they're quite synonyms. In math they denote two different things. The reciprocal of f(x) = y is g(x) = 1/y. The inverse of f(x)=y is g(y) = x. https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/reciprocal h
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by nyeah 2y ago
Preach it, brother.
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by nyeah 2y ago
Sure, she will eventually get 3,750 GBP for a year's work. Compared to living expenses that rounds to zero, but ok its not precisely zero.
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by nyeah 2y ago
"Buy books." My turn. What about the article is making you roll the eyes and go Socratic on my ass? Whence the bad vibes, bro?
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by nyeah 2y ago
Almost no writers make significant money from their writing.
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by nyeah 2y ago
If you read the OP and felt angry or offended, can you quote a key sentence that seemed to be a problem?
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by nyeah 2y ago
When did she say she deserved a comfortable life? She writes. She doesn't get paid. Where are these bad vibes coming from?
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by nyeah 2y ago
I'm surprised that anyone can read this coldly factual post about volunteer work that benefits society and pays next to nothing ... and then somehow come up with an antagonistic response. YMMV. But I never read about St. Francis, say,
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by nyeah 2y ago
I wish we could call the Quake algorithm "fast reciprocal square root". But it's far too late now.
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by nyeah 2y ago
Not really disagreeing, but history and technology are both messy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claims_to_the_first_airplane_f...
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by nyeah 2y ago
'if that's what "invented" means then nobody has ever invented anything.' People invent things. But "airplane" turned out to be much more than one thing. Not all of them were invented by Curtiss (a local f
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by nyeah 2y ago
Yeah, beam that energy out of there!
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by nyeah 2y ago
' this is ">100% efficiency" in the same sense that "turned off the LED's electric power, set it on fire, then measured the fire's light output" is ">100% efficiency".' It's absol
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by nyeah 2y ago
Great advice. I think it's one good rule. It needs to be combined with other good rules, like "meeting time can be precious".
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by nyeah 2y ago
Oh, no, I'm asking people who downvoted your comment to please get their heads in the game. I don't understand their point of view.
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by nyeah 2y ago
Well ... nobody. I read it wrong at first glance.
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by nyeah 2y ago
It's not fair to call it a "Mistrial" just because it hallucinates a little bit.
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by nyeah 2y ago
If you are downvoting, I hope you've read at least one of D&K's papers. Or at least looked at the plots. Not meta-stuff pro or con, but what Dunning and Krueger wrote.
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by nyeah 2y ago
This may be a great article. As an aside, all Dunning and Krueger showed is that everybody thinks they're in the top 1/3 to 1/4. (At least everybody in undergrad school at Cornell.)
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by nyeah 2y ago
Thanks. Somehow I thought the author was trying to explain a simple linear two-slit experiment using two photons, each with half the energy. I think it was a reading problem on my end.
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by nyeah 2y ago
The author talks about "two downconverted photons" each at half the energy, in that simple linear experiment. Is that mainstream physics? If so ... big ask, but do you happen to have a butt-simple reference at the undergrad QM lev
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by nyeah 2y ago
No it isn't. Please stop.

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